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Gyrocopters are way too newfangled for Runes. Only the most radical would apply the most basic of runes.Do gyrocopters burn fuel to fly, or they are powered solely by runes? If it's the first, what is the fuel?
By the way Boney, of all the books you listed, this is the one that I'm most interested in reading. Since you have it, how heavy of a read is it? I've been thinking of getting to the Mahabharata and Ramayana because I've always been curious, and was wondering how much reading was required for them.
I tried reading this, but i ran into the same problems as the silmarillion.
By the way Boney, of all the books you listed, this is the one that I'm most interested in reading. Since you have it, how heavy of a read is it? I've been thinking of getting to the Mahabharata and Ramayana because I've always been curious, and was wondering how much reading was required for them.
There's also a bunch of books I'm not sure whether they best fit on the 'religion' shelf, or are more history or psychology or philosophy. Like, Faust? Nietzsche? The Screwtape Letters? Brothers Grimm? Books on psychology and ethics by the Dalai Lama? Freemasons? The lines can get very blurred
When we caught that look at Ranald, how big was he? Ursun and the Horned Rat are both very big, which got me wondering whether Ranald is also very big or just dude-sized.
I feel that a god is as large as they want to be at that moment.When we caught that look at Ranald, how big was he? Ursun and the Horned Rat are both very big, which got me wondering whether Ranald is also very big or just dude-sized.
Im sure Shallaya appreciates that.I feel that a god is as large as they want to be at that moment.
Wait so did they and do have sex in canon? No conceptual drank from the chalice stuff, just plain mammalian copulation?
This is why libraries use the Dewey Decimal, and classify everything by treatment, rather than subject. And also why computers are a godsend for organizing books.I work in a bookshop, and this is an issue we deal with daily. We have a "philosophy" section, a "psychology" section, a "spirituality and religion" section (which is hilarious because we have tarot and astrology books next to C.S.Lewis's essays on Catholicism, the Qur'an, and biographies of the Dalai Lama), and a "self help" section (not to be confused with the "health and wellbeing" section).
And don't even get me started on the four different politics sections we have ("politics", "20th century British", "Feminism", "Identity and Race") or how mythology and folklore is divided between history, fiction, and spirituality.
Trying to find the right section for a book is difficult because there's so much overlap, so we tend to fall back on "if I was a customer who wanted this specific book, where would I look first?" and shelve it there.
Say you've got Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology. Where do you shelve it:
A) Sci-fi and Fantasy
B) Viking History
C) Spirituality
D) Fiction A-Z
There's no correct answer. Most of his work is in the Sci-Fi and Fantasy section, so you could put it there, or it could go with other mythology books in history, or it could go in the paganism section, or just throw it into fiction—which is where Stephen Fry's, Madeline Miller's, Pat Barker's, and Jennifer Saint's myth retellings are kept.
(What we actually do is keep it with his other works in fantasy because people are usually looking for Neil Gaiman books specifically rather than books on Norse Mythology).
The only real answer is "can your customers find it easily?"
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They are gods, Sotek in particular is not a mammal....Wait so did they and do have sex in canon? No conceptual drank from the chalice stuff, just plain mammalian copulation?
Canon is exceptionally vague on whether they even have a romantic relationship. There are several stories of Ranald's ascension and the chalice one is simply popular, and it's stated within that very story that it's not true by any means, and that Ranald was always a god and never human. In canon material, Shallya and Ranald don't even have all that strong of a connection outside those few myths. Certainly, the Cults don't really cooperate in any major ways or anything like that.Wait so did they and do have sex in canon? No conceptual drank from the chalice stuff, just plain mammalian copulation?
This is why libraries use the Dewey Decimal, and classify everything by treatment, rather than subject. And also why computers are a godsend for organizing books.
You sucker punched me with the phrasing here. I thought you were talking about 3 and a half years ago in real life for a second there, and I was wonering how fast the passage of time was moving that so long had passed. I was sure we were on the K8P Expedition back then. Then I realised you were talking about in universe time.but I cane across this exchange roughly three and a half years ago, before the expedition
This is disappointing but not surprising. But I do remember the very large library I went to in my country using the Dewey Decimal system, and I live in a Muslim country. I can guarantee you we had a ton of Muslim texts back there. I can't really tell you what they did as a compromise, but I do know that a Muslim library was using Dewey. Probably a modified version.For example, the Dewey system heavily favours Christianity in its religion section—sections 200 through 290 is almost exclusively for works on Christianity, whilst the entirety of Islam is filed solely under 297. If you have a large number of Muslims visiting your library for religious texts, then Dewey is the wrong system to use because it makes Islamic texts almost impossible to organise.
They are gods, they do whatever they want.Wait so did they and do have sex in canon? No conceptual drank from the chalice stuff, just plain mammalian copulation?
Most libraries modify from the big systems.You sucker punched me with the phrasing here. I thought you were talking about 3 and a half years ago in real life for a second there, and I was wonering how fast the passage of time was moving that so long had passed. I was sure we were on the K8P Expedition back then. Then I realised you were talking about in universe time.
This is disappointing but not surprising. But I do remember the very large library I went to in my country using the Dewey Decimal system, and I live in a Muslim country. I can guarantee you we had a ton of Muslim texts back there. I can't really tell you what they did as a compromise, but I do know that a Muslim library was using Dewey. Probably a modified version.
This is disappointing but not surprising. But I do remember the very large library I went to in my country using the Dewey Decimal system, and I live in a Muslim country. I can guarantee you we had a ton of Muslim texts back there. I can't really tell you what they did as a compromise, but I do know that a Muslim library was using Dewey. Probably a modified version.
They are gods, Sotek in particular is not a mammal....
They canonically (in this quest) have children, but they're metaphysical beings as much metaphor and belief as they are actual creatures. We have no idea how they fuck, but they do and again its probably a matter that they can if they want to.
DL focuses on different aspects of Canon, which also means that certain parts that barely have any light shined on them gain more importance in the narrative and become central to it. Ranald's relationship with Shallya is one of those things. Mathilde's always been an avid supporter of the Ranald/Shallya narrative, and she even found out that apparently they have children. None of that is even alluded to in canon.
So is the shipping of Ranald and Shallaya a popular thing in the Warhammer fanon or is this endemic to this quest?Mathilde actually once got lewd artwork of Ranald supping from Shallaya's "cup" as a gift for the about to be established shrine, so i find making crude jokes and innuendos about it from time to time to be great fun .
Outside this quest? I've barely seen anyone talking about the two in relation to each other. People usually mention Ranald when they're cursing him out for giving them bad luck when rolling for Winds of Magic in Total Warhammer. Shallya is mentioned, but not really in relation to Ranald. I mean, I'm still relatively new to "fanon" so I can't say much, but I'm going to be real with you and say that this quest shaped Ranald's narrative in a way that no other piece of canon or fanon work has ever done.So is the shipping of Ranald and Shallaya a popular thing in the Warhammer fanon or is this endemic to this quest?
I always thought the latter, but the comment I replied to made me rethink it and curious enough to ask the question.
It's not just fanon, it is a legitimate theological debate within the Cult of Ranald whether he truly loved Shallya or swindled her, and which one should be seen as more praiseworthy.So is the shipping of Ranald and Shallaya a popular thing in the Warhammer fanon or is this endemic to this quest?
I always thought the latter, but the comment I replied to made me rethink it and curious enough to ask the question.